Tales from Switzerland

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General Books, 2013 - Всего страниц: 24
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1822 edition. Excerpt: ...her of earlier and happier days: it recalled to her recollection the scenes of her nativity, and those waters whose borders had witnessed the beginning of her The 'cdche d'eau' is a species of canal-boat, but generally of stronger make. crimes and afflictions. That deed of darkness, with its accompanying emotions, and all its attendant horrors, repassed in hurried succession through her mind. At length, unable to restrain herself, she burst into tears again and again, cursing, in the bitterness of an unrenewed heart, the hour she was brought forth in, and the monster who had filled to the brim her cup of woe." "How much," I remarked, "does the whole colour of our lives seem to be dependant on the occurrences of a moment! Had she never erred, she would, probably, have remained the gay votary of fashion and dissipation. But all is superintended, no doubt, and overruled for good to the vessels of mercy; yet it has often forcibly struck me, how much a grain in the balance appears to influence not only our temporal, but our eternal state. Under such circumstances, how sweet is the injunction, 'Cast all your care on him.' Had Matilda known at that period, when her sorrows, to a human eye, had reached their consummation, 'the weight of glory which they were eventually to work for her, ' how would her 'mouth have been filled with laughter, and her tongue with singing!' But the thick darkness of sin and ignorance was still before her eyes, and she could only discern enough to render the glooms that enveloped her, more fearful and dismaying. "There is something peculiarly affecting in the review of her emotions at this season. The feelings, which had been stupified by a long course of vice and misery, seemed to be roused from their torpor to the...

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